



Will Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek dominate the 2026 French Open?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Jim Courier, former World No.1, called it the revenge tour. Last year, Jannik Sinner missed out on some of the biggest events on the tennis tour—Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Madrid—since he was serving a three-month doping ban.
In 2026, the mild-mannered Italian with a jackhammer of a backhand, picked up titles in each of those tournaments, stringing together one of the most dominant runs in the sport.Starting with the title at the ATP 1000 in Paris last year, Sinner won five Masters titles in a row, and became the first man to do so. Masters 1000 is not quite the Grand Slams, but it’s the next best thing in tennis.
They feature the crème de la crème of the sport.More importantly, he has managed to sustain success on diverse surfaces and conditions. Paris is played on indoor hard courts near the end of a long, tiring tennis season, Indian Wells and Miami make up the “Sunshine double”, the US outdoor hard-court swing after the Australian Open, Monte Carlo heralds the start of the clay season in European spring and Madrid is unlike any other clay event since the altitude of the Spanish capital makes the ball zip faster.
Sinner hasn’t just survived the subtle shifts; he has thrived in it. In the first four Masters tournaments this year, Sinner has a perfect 23-0 record, and has just dropped two sets en route.“I see a lot of people kind of, not criticising, but saying that Jannik is a little bit too much of a robot,” Casper Ruud, the two-time French Open finalist, said in Rome recently.
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